Re: heads up -- subtle change of behavior of new initdb

Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com> writes:
> I just noticed tonight that the new initdb introduced a subtle change of
> behavior. I use a shell script to automate the process of
> - rm old data directory
> - mkdir new data directory
> - initdb
> - load from pgdumpall
> Now, that second step is not needed, but as of today it produces an
> installation that won't start due to improper permissions on data

That's a bug --- evidently the "fix permissions" path of control is
wrong; can you take a look?

regards, tom lane